PEOPLE’S BACKING

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1932, Page 5

PEOPLE’S BACKING

FOR MR LANG

IN FIGHT AGAINST STATE.

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this clay at 9.25 a.ni) SYDNEY, April 21

Several thousand supporters from the industrial suburbs gathered inside and outside of the Sydney Town Hall to night to hear Mr Lang’s speech in vindication of his attitude at the recent Melbourne conference.

He claimed that the conference plan amounted to a brazen attempt to destroy the States by reducing wages, and to enable the Commonwealth, which had control of the credit system, to jockey New South Wales out ot ms share of moneys, made available by the banks' to the various Governments. The whole aim was to reduce wages by forty per cent., and to take the worners’ shill inir for the payment of overseas’ interest, and to turn back the clock to the period when it was laid down that a minimum wage should be sufficient to provide the worker with the bare necessities of life.

Mr Lang, amid great cheer®, declared ; “t say how that there is no necessity, and never will bo, to vn» slave the people of Australia in the way provided for at the recent Melbourne conference. The meeting passed ft resolution, pledging itself to stand solidly behind Mr Lang, and the New South Wales Government in the fight to prevent the degradation of the standard of living, and againist the attacks of financial interests.